I-deals: Idiosyncratic Deals Employees Bargain for Themselves / Edition 1

by Denise Rousseau

Overview

Employees with valuable skills and a sense of their own worth can make their jobs, pay, perks, and career opportunities different from those of their coworkers in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. Work at home arrangements, flexible hours, special projects - personally negotiated arrangements like these can be a valuable source of flexibility and personal satisfaction, but at the risk of creating inequality and resentment by other employees. This book shows how such individual arrangements can be made fair and acceptable to coworkers, and beneficial to both the employee and the employer. Written by the world's leading expert on the subject, I-deals: Idiosyncratic Deals Employees Bargain for Themselves challenges traditional notions that standardization is the way to create workplace justice. The book is filled with real examples, cases, and supporting data. It expands conventional ideas of workplace fairness, provides details on the power that workers influence over their employment conditions, and spells out how employees and employers can channel this influence into mutually beneficial innovations. The book is "must reading" for students and scholars in the fields of human resource management and organizational behavior, and for managers and employees everywhere.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765610430
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/31/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	276
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Denise M. Rousseau is the H.J. Heinz II Professor of Organizational Behavior and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and served as president of the Academy of Management in 2004–2005. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (AB, MA, PhD), she has been elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology, the Academy of Management, and the British Academy of Management, and currently is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Organizational Behavior. Her book Psychological Contracts in Organizations won the Academy of Management’s Terry Award in 1996. Her research examines employment relations and change in start-ups, high-technology firms, hospitals, high-reliability organizations, and nonprofits in many countries.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 What Is an Idiosyncratic Deal?; Chapter 2 Everyday Idiosyncrasy and Its Many Forms; Chapter 3 Shady Deals: What I-deals Are Not; Chapter 4 Signs of I-deals in Organizational Research; Chapter 5 I-deal Types: Six-Plus Ways Employees Bargain; Chapter 6 How Employees Negotiate I-Deals; Chapter 7 Coworkers: The I-deal’s Most Interested Third Part Ies; Chapter 8 Organizational Perspectives on I-deals as a Human Resource Practice; Chapter 9 Cross-National Factors and Idiosyncratic Deals; Chapter 10 Learning from I-deals;